Slaugherhouse Quotes

#1. The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut didn't like all the semicolons. 'People will probably figure out that you went to college
you don't have to try to prove it to them,' he told Danny.

John Irving

#2. Why is such a bad thing to die?

Han Kang

#3. In order to be able to count earthly sorrows and afflictions as matters of joy, we have to cultivate the ability to think in terms of the future.

R.C. Sproul

#4. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Philip Yancey

#5. He didn't remember because he'd seen thousands of little fish hundreds of times, and because it didn't mean to him what it had to me.

Melissa Bank

#6. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

Peter Lynch

#7. Common sense is the best sense I know of

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#8. I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

Matthew Perry

#9. He, too, stood looking at her for a moment
and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning ...

Ayn Rand

#10. When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.

A.C. Dixon

#11. What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Simon Hoggart

#12. Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk

Chetan Bhagat

#13. I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. -St.John Rivers

Charlotte Bronte